Category: Adventures
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Happy Holidays!
Just a short note to let you know that the studio will be closed through January 17. Deb is going to India, which has been on the top of her bucket list for years. Kris is going to stay close to home, taking a short trip to help her sister organize her new house near…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Just a short note to let you know that we are taking a little break this week to spend time with our families. We are so grateful for them as we are for our friends, students, and colleagues. We would also like to pause a moment and thank all the wonderful firefighters who have been…
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Antoni Gaudí’s Barcelona
Spain did not disappoint. Antoni Gaudí’s Barcelona was as magical as I thought it would be. What artist intentionally starts something that he knows he will never see to completion? La Sagrada Familia My first stop was Gaudí’s masterwork, La Sagrada Familia. This temple is amazing in so many ways. The highly decorated nativity façade…
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Teaching at Focus on Fiber Florida Style
Wanna get away? Why not join me at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida for Focus on Fiber? I’m going to be teaching a 2-day workshop on Improvisational Upcycling with T-shirts, April 7-8, 2019. What is Improvisational Upcycling? Improvise: to make or fabricate out of what is conveniently on…
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The Pixeladies Turn 15!
Has it really been fifteen years since we paddled around Deb’s pool, dreaming up a way to start a business? It seems like yesterday when we decided to call ourselves the Pixeladies, but now that we’ve taken stock of what we’ve done these past fifteen years, it really has been a long time. You can…
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Tech Tueday: The Pixeladies, WordPress & Gutenberg
This is Kris with a big confession. It’s time to update our website. We use WordPress to create our website. There are two basic pieces to WordPress: how the site “looks” and how you “edit” your information. While we still like the look of the website, it just doesn’t work anymore with all the different…
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Behind the Scenes at Quilting Arts TV
We flew to Cleveland, Ohio last week to film three segments for Quilting Arts TV. We met up with our colleague Jane Haworth (pronounce it like Howard, but replace the “d” with “th”) at the airport for a red-eye flight to Cleveland. The bad part about taking a night flight is that you usually arrive…
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What (Not) To Wear (On TV)
It’s Kris here, with a fun dilemma. Let me just shout it out: Holy spandex, Batman, the Pixeladies are going to be on TV, and we don’t have a thing to wear! I know, back up. “You’re gonna be on TV?” you might be asking. Yep. We’ll be filming three segments for the long-running Quilting Arts…
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Why We Go To The Movies
It seems like a silly question. Doesn’t everyone go to the movies (or at least watch them at home)? While most people do just that for the enjoyment of it — and we’re no exception — we love to go to the movies for inspiration. Ogle all you want over George Clooney (and we do),…
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And What did you do on your Summer Vacation? Part II
For the first time ever, the Pixeladies took the summer off. If you want to know what a productive summer was like, you’ll have to read Deb’s post. My main goal was to find a part-time job to help pay for our new 2017 fully ELECTRIC Chevy Bolt! I am totally in love with this car!…
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And What did you do on your Summer Vacation?
For the first time ever, the Pixeladies took the summer off. Deb needed to find herself, and Kris, well you’ll have to wait until next week for that. I, Deb, really needed to find my paint rollers and paint the interior walls of my house. I had also planned a slight renovation of the kitchen,…
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Cover Girls, Exhibition, And Vacation, Oh My!
We certainly are starting our vacation off with a bang. For one, we were interviewed for the latest Patchwork Professional magazine, which just hit the newsstands. Patchwork Professional is published in Germany, so we had double the fun answering our interview questions in German. Yes, the editor was a bit surprised at that! The best…
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Quilt National Part II
Here it is, our Quilt National entry. It’s called “American Still Life: The Weight of the Nation.” Here’s a detail below: You can click on the thumbnail to see the larger image. We wanted to create a still life. It seems as if every artist tries at one time or another to create a still…
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Road Trip to Quilt National Part I
We made it to Pendleton, IN after spending an hour on the tarmac in Chicago, trying to avoid getting hit by lightening. We are spending a great time with our dear friend, Sherry Boram, enjoying a relaxing stay before the hullabaloo starts in Athens, OH. And what better way to start than with food. …
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Happy New Year!
The Pixeladies started the new year in traditional fashion – on vacation, spending time with our families. It’s always nice to take a little break. We come back refreshed and inspired to create anew. For Kris, New Year’s is spent at the big dinner with her mother-in-law’s family. There’s a lot of preparation involved, but…
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Houston, We Have Our Reservations!
For those of you who don’t yet know about it, the International Quilt Market and Festival begin this weekend in Houston! Market, which is not open to the public, is a trade show for the fabric inclined. It will be our first trip to market! We will be giving a furoshiki demonstration in the C&T…
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The Book is Here – Party on March 24!
We drove down to Concord, home of C&T Publishing, this past Tuesday and picked up a few copies of our book, Furoshiki Fabric Wraps. Let’s say we were pretty excited when we sold our very fist copy to Wanda of the Piecemakers Guild in Newark. We are giving free wrapping demos at Shared Stitches in…
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NYC Part II – The Garment District
Well, you can’t expect the Pixeladies to go anywhere without seeing if there is some store, museum, or event involving fiber. Needless to say, we had our choice during our October trip to NYC. We decided on Mood Fabrics because 1) we knew they would have a lot of fabric (and they did), 2) we…
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NYC Part I – Faith
It was a whirlwind trip to the Big Apple during the three most beautiful days of the year. Would you believe mid-70s and clear? We have so much to tell you about, but we’ll start with the reason we went – Faith Ringgold received the City College of New York’s First Cultural Arts Award, and …
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Join Us at the ASG National Conference!
We’re packing our bags for the American Sewing Guild’s national conference in Los Angeles August 19-21. (OK, that’s not really true. We’re actually running around getting all of our teaching materials ready, but that doesn’t sound like the organized Pixeladies we always claim to be.) Despite this small confession, we really hope you can join us there.…